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The right moment to migrate from an ad hoc data store to SQL is the moment you first need an index.
Their wordsI suspect, considering the process retrospect, a great deal of that pain can be avoided by committing to migrating directly to an SQL system the moment you need an index.
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Programming is fundamentally the practice of making tradeoffs about what matters and what doesn't.
Mental modelTrade-offs
Their wordsProgramming is the art of tradeoffs. You have to decide what matters and what does not.
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Mental modelActivation energy
Their wordsMost projects fail before they start. They fail because the activation energy is too high.
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